by Jan Spiller

The planet VENUS represents the urge to fall in love, to experience pleasure, to accumulate, to be popular and to experience the satisfaction of attraction and fulfillment on a personal level.

The placement of VENUS in your chart will show what inspires the experience of love in your heart, your style of romance, the atmosphere you need to access your loving feelings, and the way you express your love to others. Because VENUS rules love and money, it's location discloses your basic approach to financial matters as well. The way VENUS relates to the other planets in your chart shows your natural tendencies to success (or disappointment) in love relationships.

Key ideas for VENUS: Loving and being loved, expressing affection, relationships, social skills, romance, falling in love, beauty (vanity), attractiveness, harmony, cooperation, values, gifts, pleasing others, sharing, gentleness, soothing, receptivity, sensory pleasure, money, accumulation, attachment, personal taste, appreciation and devotion.

Rules the SIGNS of: Taurus and Libra

Rules the natural HOUSES: 2nd House and 7th House

Time in each Sign: 1 Month

The challenge of VENUS: to not lose yourself in the pursuit of love or money. The challenge is to establish a healthy balance in your life.

The goal of VENUS: to allow yourself the enjoyment of loving and being loved in return, and to expand your ability to experience love and pleasure in healthy and consistent ways.

Use to increase VENUS' power in your life: The metal, Copper; the stones Rose Quartz, Emerald, Tourmaline and Malachite.

© Jan Spiller 2003